Would you rather be the coworker who is lazy all year, barely does anything, but when your team needed him the most, he clutches?
Or
Would you rather be the coworker who puts in the work, the hours every day, every hour, but never really shines or goes extremely beyond expectation?
For a fair amount of time, I have been interested in functional programming, especially because of Lean, theorem proving, and formal languages in general.
But I did not really get into it for a long time, and the reason was pretty simple.
As the winter quarter is about to wrap up, I feel the need to talk about one of my favorite classes this quarter — and honestly, one of my favorite classes overall: Computer Graphics.
It was Friday when my dear friend Gasser told me that he wanted my help cooking Iftar for tomorrow, Saturday.
I really like zero-calorie drinks, and I am not totally sure why. If I had to guess, it is because my parents banned them when I was younger because of the caffeine. That logic never fully made sense to me, since plenty of non-zero-calorie drinks also have caffeine. The ban just made them feel “special,” and now I clearly over-correct.
There is a good Arabic saying for this:
الممنوع مرغوب
What is banned is wanted
I keep thinking I will never be good at powerlifting.
Not in the fake-humble way. I mean it in the way where I watch someone move a weight like it is nothing, and I am still fighting the same rep I fought months ago. I still miss commands sometimes. I still doubt my technique mid-set. I still have days where the bar feels heavier than it should.
But I still do it.
I use Python with OCI because I want infra work to feel repeatable instead of “console clicking until it works.” The OCI console and CLI are fine, but Python is where I can package the boring parts: inventory, guardrails, and a clean summary.